Contionary:vilvi

Siwa

Pronunciation

• (Aingo) IPA^(key): [ˈvɪlvi]

Noun

vilvi anim (marked vilumi)

1. (poetic) bird
2. (poetic, mythology) woman

Inflection

vilvi — animate noun

	Unmarked agentive/dative	Marked patientive/genitive
singular	vilvi	vilumi
plural	vilvigi, vilvęgi	vilumṡi

Trivia

• In the traditional Siwa creation myth, when a droplet of primordial honey fell onto a black spruce, a flock of birds was created, from which women were born.